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Table 1 Characteristics of the traditional medical model and patient-centered medicine

From: Patient-centered medicine and patient-oriented research: improving health outcomes for individual patients

Traditional medical model

Patient-centered medicine

Provider-centered model

Patient-centered model

Founded on the principles of beneficence and authoritarianism

Founded on the principle of autonomy

Disease-oriented care

Patient-oriented care

Focuses on outcomes of importance for physicians and regulators

Focuses on outcomes of importance for patients

The patient’s perspective is usually ignored

The patient’s preferences, objectives and values are taken into account during decision making and delivery of healthcare

Compliance with the physician’s decisions

The patient and physician share decision making

Improve outcomes for the average patient

Improve outcomes for the individual patient

Population-oriented research

Patient-oriented research